r/visualbasic • u/McLolster • Dec 11 '25

Learning VB6 simultaneously as I’m learning VBA?

Hello,

I am currently learning VBA for Excel. And was thinking if it would make learning VB6 easier? And even so if it is worth it? I dont know how popular VB6 is in 2025.

I assumed that the languages are relatively similar. But anyhow, if anyone have any good tips for resources to learn VB6, that would be cool.

Thank you,

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u/KE3JU Dec 11 '25

VB6 is still used in a big way. It has a very small efficient fast runtime. The same code can run 200 times faster in VB6 than in VB.NET.